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Been focused on making my home space more healthy and hospitable. I might be doing a bathroom remodeling later, but looking to add some indoor plants as air purifiers. I'll be getting some English Ivy here or another spot to purify the air of mold spores and doo doo particles. I might add a eucalyptus plant later as well.

Had an interesting conversation with a Baby Boomer the other day. I brought up that I work 3 jobs, wealth management clerk, restaraunt manager and production editor for a local theatre group. He said "Good lord, son. You're gonna work yourself into an early grave. Just keep some job and you'll be fine." Then I look at rent costs and the yearly inflation rate. Seems like this is the minimum needed now. How do I tell him that it isn't 1995 anymore?

As a guy, here is what I think would be likely to ease me into being receptive to you eventually opening up about those feelings. I'd say just start with light conversation and ask them casually if they would be interested in seeing a movie, getting lunch or some other casual hang out activity. After a few times if you get those meeting arrange, then follow with telling them how you like hanging out with him. Then from there after a while, you could ask about if they are single, plans for the future. Then you could formally ask him on a date.

Woo! Well my 2025 is off to a busy start. Making some serious lifestyle changes after some intense personal revelations, I might be getting a promotion at my evening job, looking to take on more hours at the morning gig, and there may be some other matters coming down the pipe. Here's hoping your 2025 is less hectic than mine. Keep powering through, everyone!

Well this is a part of dementia. There is a mix of impulse control, thus personal filter that breaks down during the run of this condition. But there is also the element of increased aggression stemming from confusion and memory lapse. Just not sure how to respond to anything. So it may be a 50/50 split on this. But as someone who comes from a family with a long legacy of bad blood relations and even some of my own negative traits I am learning to confront, I would say try to give her as much understanding and forgiveness as you can manage. It may be that if she had more self awareness, dementia or not, she'd probably break down from the weight of guilt and self loathing towards her own words and actions. I say this because there were sign of this in my grandmother as well when she had moments of lucidity.

I am so sorry that you all are going through this. I get what you are going through as my Grandmother had some bad episodes with her dementia in her final years. I pray for all of you, and especially your grandmother.

Sorry I've not been so active lately, everyone. There has been a hecking lot happening over the past couple months. Here is a quick run down. So stuff has come to my attention regarding my parent's health and I've been in a process of having affairs with my brother set in place for the eventuality of their passing. They are in good health as of now, but some stuff came up getting us more focused on this. Been in a process of downsizing stuff from my apartment and selling on Ebay like crazy. Been shipping out 3-10 packages almost every day for the past 4 weeks. That and I have been going through some training that should prepare more for the next phase of my career in finance. So yeah. All of this has been happening the past couple months.